Nadya goes into the salt mines to get the fiancee back, but instead frees her best friend when she sees him again. They head to the Salt Mines to get back Serefin’s ex-fiance from the Vultures. At a dinner party for Serefin, Nadya is exposed and they are forced to flee. Meanwhile the witch sees Malachiasz and gives him strange messages. Serefin confronts his mother about this and learns it as truth. She tells him that Malachiasz is Serefin’s brother. Serefin’s reign is being questioned, and he is seeing strange things and hearing strange voices. Both are trying to figure out what to do about Malachiasz who is trying to take the throne. Serefin is king, and Nadya is close to being exposed. Serefin and Nadya are dealing with the repercussions of what happened at the end of Wicked Saints. The rating is the same, because it wasn’t a 5 book for me, but it was def better than the first book IMO.

I actually like this book A LOT more than I did the first. It was dark and horrible and everything I expected going into it. I need to know how this messed up story concludes. Instead I’m left wanting more… Needing more. I am still so much at a loss and I feel this large gap in my hear where the answers all should be. Yeah that was just as dense as the first book. What if I hate it? What if its not worth the hours its going to take to read? What if I want to smash a table because of it? I suppose these are all expected responses, but I really do want to love this series because I like the magic system and the way it is written. It is so thick I swear I could break a table with it or something. I have high hopes for this monster of a novel. So what better book than to dive deep, other than this one? I had to look back at my last review for Wicked Saints to remember what was up, but now I am ready. I needed to make sure that I was well haunted for the end of the month. The answer was, two books for the end of the month. So, I set up my month for disappointment, and decided my reading order on what would give me the most satisfaction when I destroyed my mind with books. Duncan paints a Gothic, icy world where shadows whisper, and no one is who they seem, with a shocking ending that will leave you breathless.įantasy | YA – PW |Death, Torture, Manipulation | Love, Destiny, Self Martyrs,

In their dramatic follow-up to Wicked Saints, the first book in their Something Dark and Holy trilogy, Emily A. The voices that Serefin hears in the darkness, the ones that Nadya believes are her gods, the ones that Malachiasz is desperate to meet―those voices want a stake in the world, and they refuse to stay quiet any longer. Their paths are being orchestrated by someone…or something. Malachiasz is at war with who–and what–he’s become.Īs their group is continually torn apart, the girl, the prince, and the monster find their fates irrevocably intertwined. Serefin is fighting off a voice in his head that doesn’t belong to him.

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